Baron Bodissey

7-31-18

The following video shows an excerpt from a speech given last Saturday (July 28, 2018) by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán at the annual Bálványos Summer Open University and Student Camp in Tusnádfürdő (Băile Tuşnad), in the ethnic Hungarian region of western Romania.

I’ve included a transcript of the entire 43-minute speech below the jump. The section that Vlad excerpted runs from about 27:56 to about 34:24. The entire video is currently being processed, but Vlad says that will probably take most of the night. You can expect to find it here sometime tomorrow.

Viktor Orbán’s talks at these conferences are notable for their breadth of intellect and insight. His mostly off-the-cuff remarks are calm, reasonable, and thoughtful. As Vlad said, “This is a speech by a grownup. You don’t get many of those in politics.”

Many thanks to CrossWare for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

7,601,000 visitors bought tickets in theaters. So when I talk about stability,

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this is the stability of the entirety of Hungarian life, from the economy

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to middle-class cultural consumer customs and

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the decrease of the number of poor. Respected ladies and gentlemen,

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this is a stability that does not make us pompous,

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or leap away from the reality of what I

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would like to say next.

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What we can do now.

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In this situation, with a two-thirds super-majority

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supporting our backs, a national government

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cannot do anything less than mark out ambitious goals,

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goals so great that they seemed unimaginable earlier,

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or were thought to be impossible. Goals of such a magnitude that they will give meaning

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to the work of the next years.

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We formulated those goals without any exposition.

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To answer the question “what will happen?”, I will name a couple of them.

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We are thinking with a 2030 event horizon.

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We want to be among the European Union’s five best countries.

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Hungary should belong among the five best countries,

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the best to work and live in.

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If we belong to the five most competitive countries by 2030,

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we should be able stop the demographic decline by then.

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By 2030 little Hungary will be physically connected

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with the rest of the regions; the speedways should go to the borders

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by 2030. We should have energy independence in Hungary,

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which is one of the most important dimensions of our safety.

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Paks [Paks is a city which has a Russian-built nuclear power plant — its renovation and new blocks to double capacity are planned and in progress] should be ready, and the new energy sources will have come online.

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Push back endemic diseases, build up the new Hungarian army,

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and let’s start building up

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Central Europe economically. Respected ladies and gentlemen, these are the perspectives

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that will make understandable what I will say next. The most important

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from the location of our present point of view [Transylvania]:

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our plan to rebuild the

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entire Carpathian valley. I see the historical situation in such a way…

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I see the historical situation that ended

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the era of 100 year of Hungarian isolation.

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We are strong again, we are dedicated, we are brave, we have strength,

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we have money, we have resources, and in recent years, we proved

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to our neighbors, that whoever

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cooperates with the Hungarians will do well. This is the moment

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to once again build up the Carpathian valley. We have an offer for our neighbors.

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Our offer can be summed up:

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that we should connect our countries with each other

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finally and seriously. Let’s connect our major cities

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with fast trains and speedways.

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It is shame that we do not have such a connection between Debrecen and Nagyvárad [Oradea — Romania],

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When one reads Mr. Orban’s speech and considers the depth of analysis, intelligence, historical knowledge, morality and plain sense and compares it with the blabber, gibberish and lies of just about every other Western leader (especially my own PM, Justin Trudeau) one has to envy the Hungarian people for their good fortune. But it isn’t only luck when the people recognize the outstanding qualities of their leader and return him to office with a super majority. Canadians couldn’t get rid of their PM, Mr. Harper fast enough to replace him with a narcissistic, empty shell, who couldn’t act fast enough to implement his disastrous migrant-loving (mostly of the Islamic kind) world-citizenship credentials. Poor, once civil, peaceful, friendly Canada.